I Was a Personality Hire. We Get Away With Doing Less Work, But You Can’t Deny Our Value to the Office.
“The world runs on favors, and you don’t do favors for people that you don’t like.”
Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs
A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…
Airtree Ventures already returned its first fund thanks to Canva while maintaining the majority of its stake
Airtree Ventures uses the secondary market to slim down its stakes while waiting for its portfolio companies to exit.
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This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant
It can be dizzying to try to understand all the complex components of a single computer chip: layers of microscopic components linked to one another through highways of copper wires, some barely wider than a few strands of DNA. Nestled between those wires is an insulating material called a dielectric, ensuring that the wires don’t…
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Strong Leaders Use These 4 Strategies to Build Trust in Their Workplace
Building trust is crucial for peak performance, whether your company goes fully remote, hybrid or follows another model. Research backs this up loud and clear.
TechCrunch Minute: TikTok and Meta’s latest moves signal a more commodified internet
The Internet’s mega-platforms are slowly merging into a great blob of sameness, and even the hottest companies in the world are not immune from the trend. TikTok’s winning strategy to focus on short-form, vertical video has found fans amongst other Internet platforms, and now TikTok is taking a page from its rivals books, reportedly borrowing […]
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Cendana, Kline Hill have a fresh $105M to buy stakes in seed VC funds from LPs looking to sell
Fund-of-funds investor Cendana Capital has joined with Kline Hill Partners for a new oversubscribed fund to buy out stakes from seed LPs looking for liquidity.
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Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration
Threads. Mastodon. Bluesky. Substack Notes. Post. Nostr. Spoutible. There’s no shortage of X competitors in the months following the acquisition of the text-based social network formerly known as Twitter by Elon Musk. Now you can add one more startup to that lineup: Lyrak, a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on […]
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What Damian Lillard Taught Me About Personal Branding
Most entrepreneurs don’t realize how valuable their personal brand is. Here’s what you can learn from Damian Lillard.
This Startup Wants to Grow Your Side Hustle For You, While Cutting You a Monthly Check
OpenStore gives Shopify owners two interesting options: Sell and walk away with a generous payout, or take a vacation while they do the work.